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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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No known citation to Thoreau's works. First found, uncredited, in the 1940s in the variant "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to look for it", p.711, Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 76, 1942. Google Books

 

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